Tech titans prepare for EU’s tougher market restraints on 06/09/23
The EU will reveal Wednesday (6 September) which of the world's tech behemoths face stronger curbs from next year under a law that will shake up how major players like Apple and Meta do business online. Slovak elections: How platforms counter political misinformation under DSA on 05/09/23
Slovak will vote on 30 September, the first to take place since the EU's DSA enforcement which obliges social media platforms to combat electoral manipulation. Apple cites privacy concerns to refuse detection of child sexual abuse material on 05/09/23
US tech giant Apple, which decided to halt the development of a photo-scanning tool to detect child sexual abuse material last December, has now offered data privacy concerns as the main reason behind the decision. The AI Act needs a practical definition of ‘subliminal techniques’ on 01/09/23
While the draft EU AI Act prohibits harmful ‘subliminal techniques’, it doesn’t define the term - we suggest a broader definition that captures problematic manipulation cases without overburdening regulators or companies, write Juan Pablo Bermúdez, Rune Nyrup, Sebastian Deterding and Rafael A. Calvo. DSA enforcement, German data strategy on 01/09/23
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “We are working hard on this @ThierryBreton” wrote Elon Musk, owner of X (former Twitter) on 25 August, day of the Digital Services Act enforcement. Child sexual abuse: New informal documents focus on detection orders on 01/09/23
Detection orders are the focus of several informal documents, distributed during this week’s technical meetings in the European Parliament about the draft law to prevent online child sexual abuse. The proposed regulation aims to prevent and combat online child sexual... Stakeholders divided on fairness, practicality of Parisian e-scooter ban on 01/09/23
As the Parisian ban on self-service scooters enters into force on 1 September, the city hall calls the move revolutionary amid an urban jungle, while stakeholders remain divided on the pros and cons. Germany’s NIS-2 implementation at a glance on 01/09/23
Germany’s implementation of the EU’s flagship cybersecurity legislation, NIS-2 will be fully integrated into national law by 17 October 2024. We caught up with Steven Heckler, Deputy Head of Department for Digitalisation and Innovation at BDI (Federal Association of German... New data strategy: German government recognises untapped data potential on 31/08/23
The new National Data Strategy was adopted by the German Federal Cabinet on Wednesday (30 August). The objective is to use the potential of generated data more effectively, to strengthen digital innovation and to improve competitiveness. Challenges emerge as EU Commission forms team to implement DSA on 30/08/23
While the European Commission's directorate in charge of implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA) has yet to be finalised, the new team is already besieged by challenges, including legal complaints, NGOs' demands and alleged technical limitations.
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